The 1922 Detroit Titans football team represented the University of Detroit as an independent during the 1922 college football season. In its fifth year under head coach James F. Duffy, Detroit compiled a 7–2–1 record and outscored its opponents by a combined total of 116 to 54. In addition to Duffy, the coaching staff included "Bingo" Brown (backfield coach), Pat Dwyer (line coach), and Harry Crowley (trainer).[1][2]

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James F. Duffy
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James Francis Jimmy Duffy was an American football player and coach. He played football at the Tilton Seminary and later at Colgate University and he was the head coach for the University of Detroit Titans for six seasons, in 1917, 1919–1922, and 1924. He compiled a record of 43–12–1, giving him the highest winning percentage of any coach in Detroit Titans history and his 43 wins ranks second in school history behind Gus Dorais. He was later an attorney, also serving in the capacity of commissioner of boxing of the state of Michigan. He died at a Veterans Hospital in Detroit in 1961, james F. Duffy at the College Football Data Warehouse

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University of Detroit Stadium
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University of Detroit Stadium, also known as U of D Stadium, Titan Stadium, or Dinan Field, was a stadium in Detroit, Michigan on the campus of the University of Detroit. The stadium opened in 1922, on land that had acquired for the universitys proposed new McNichols campus. The stadium stood on 6-Mile Road just west of Fairfield St. in the northeast corner of the campus. It was built with the field on an axis, with stands on the east and west sides of the field. In addition to football, it was used for track meets, concerts. One rather unusual aspect of the stadium were its lighting towers, University of Detroit Stadium was the home field for the NFLs Detroit Lions from 1934 to 1937, and again in 1940. The Lions also played early season home games there in 1938 &39. The stadium was also was home to the Detroit Wolverines for their only NFL season in 1928, U of D stadium was the site of the 1935 NFL Championship Game, won by the Lions over the New York Giants, 26–7. The Detroit Cougars professional soccer club played games here in the summers of 1967 and 1968 whenever their regular home field. One such match on June 14,1967 against the Houston Stars ended in an infamous player riot, the Michigan Arrows of the fledgling Continental Football League used the stadium for the 1968 season. Unfortunately, the Arrows drew just 4,240 fans per game en route to a 1-11 season, the Arrows moved to Midland, Michigan to become the Tri-City Apollos in 1969, then folded with the rest of the league. The stadium was demolished in 1971 and was replaced by a parking lot, for many years thereafter the stadiums lighting towers remained standing in order to provide lighting for the lot. The location is occupied by a multi-purpose turf field north of Calihan Hall

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University of Detroit Mercy
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University of Detroit Mercy is a private, Roman Catholic co-educational university in Detroit, Michigan, United States, sponsored by both the Society of Jesus and the Religious Sisters of Mercy. Antoine M. Garibaldi, Ph. D. is the president, founded in 1877, it is the largest Roman Catholic university in Michigan. Detroit Mercy was ranked in the top tier of Midwestern regional universities in the 2015 edition of the U. S. News & World Report Best Colleges rankings and has been for over a decade. In athletics, the University sponsors 19 NCAA Division I level varsity sports for men and women, Detroit Mercy is one of the 28 members of the Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities, which represents Jesuit institutions in the United States. University of Detroit Mercys origin dates back to 1877 with the founding of Detroit College by the Society of Jesus, under the leadership of John Baptist Miège, the college developed into the University of Detroit, and in 1927 Fr. John P. McNichols, S. J. the then president of the University of Detroit, in 1941, the Sisters of Mercy opened Mercy College of Detroit. In 1990, despite some opposition these two schools consolidated to become University of Detroit Mercy, the University has a long history of being active in the community and continues to play a major role in the minds and hearts of Detroiters. McNichols Road, on the southeast corner of McNichols Road and Livernois Avenue, the majority of the Universitys undergraduate and graduate programs are offered on this campus, as well as the Universitys main administration and athletic facilities like Calihan Hall. It is also the location of all six student residence halls, the Riverfront Campus is home to the School of Law in downtown Detroit at 651 East Jefferson. The Corktown Campus, at 2700 Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard, has housed the School of Dentistry, Detroit Mercy has also partnered with Aquinas College and St. Mary Mercy Hospital in Grand Rapids, Mich. to offer a Nursing prelicensure program. A former campus at 8200 West Outer Drive in Detroit was home to Mercy College of Detroit from 1941 until consolidation in 1990, as part of University of Detroit Mercy, the Outer Drive Campus hosted Detroit Mercys Dentistry Clinic starting in 1997. Detroit Mercy agreed to sell the Outer Drive Campus to WCCCD in 2003, the University is home to a variety of institutes and centers, clinics providing services to the public, and archives. Examples include, In 1965 University of Detroits Urban Law Clinic was one of the first in the country and it is one of the few law schools in the country requiring a practicum course for all students. In 2003 the clinic acquired a 28-foot long mobile law office, in 2012 a downtown building was purchased and renovated for the clinic, bringing the clinic closer to the court buildings. At that time the courses were serving over 1000 clients a year. Following are the courses offered at Detroit Mercy, all of which fulfill the student requirement. This serves immigrants seeking family sponsorship or Special Immigrant Juvenile Status, students argue before the Department of Veterans Affairs for disability benefits for veterans. This prepares students for all aspects of defense in cases, including courtroom appearances

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1922 college football season
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California, Cornell, and Princeton were all picked by multiple selectors. Andy Smiths Pacific Coast Conference champion Wonder Team at California continued on its streak since 1920, Eastern power Cornell was coached by Gil Dobie and led by one of the sports great backfields with George Pfann, Eddie Kaw, Floyd Ramsey, and Charles E. Cassidy. Bill Ropers Princeton team was dubbed the team of destiny by Grantland Rice after defeating Chicago 21–18 in the first game nationally broadcast on radio, today, college football on radio is common for nearly every game in every division. On the same day, Cal defeated USC at the dedication of Rose Bowl Stadium, the Southern Conference would begin its first season of football in 1922. Vanderbilt tied with North Carolina and Georgia Tech for the conference championship, the Commodores tied Michigan 0–0 on October 14 at the dedication of Dudley Field, the Souths first permanent college football stadium. On the same day, Big Ten champion Iowa upset Yale, the 1923 Rose Bowl at seasons end was the first called the Rose Bowl and was held in the newly constructed stadium. In the first bowl appearance for either team, USC beat Penn State 14–3, the 1922 season included the new try for a point rule. Vanderbilt opened its season with a 38-0 win over Middle Tennessee Normal, Baylor beat North Texas 55-0 California beat Santa Clara 45-14. October 7 Princeton defeated Virginia 5-0, Harvard beat Holy Cross 20-0, Iowa beat Knox College 61-0, and Michigan defeated Case 48-0. October 14 Princeton beat Colgate 10-0, Harvard defeated Bowdoin 15-0, in the first game between Eastern and Western teams of the college football season, Iowa dominated Yale. Yale lost to a Western team for the first time ever, in Nashville, Michigan and Vanderbilt played to a 0-0 tie at the inaugural game for Dudley Field, the first dedicated football-only stadium in the South in the style of the Eastern schools. After beating Duke 20-0 in a Thursday game, North Carolina beat South Carolina, Centre gave VPI its only loss of the season. October 21 Harvard had been shocked the year before in a 6-0 upset by the Prayin Colonels of Centre College of Danville, in the rematch, the Crimson beat Centre 24-10. Princeton recorded another shutout, blanking Maryland 26-0, in Dallas, Vanderbilt and Texas, both unbeaten, met at the State Fair, with the Commodores winning 20-10. In Houston, Baylor defeated Rice 31-0, North Carolina won at NC State, 14-9. Iowa won at Illinois 8-7, and Michigan won at Ohio State 19-0, In St. Louis, Drake beat Washington University, 31-7 Baylor beat Arkansas 60-13 California shut out the Olympic Club team, 25-0. October 28 In the first football game ever broadcast nationally on the radio Princeton traveled to the University of Chicago for a rematch of Chicagos 1921 win, the game was witnessed by 32,000 fans, and listened to on New Yorks WEAF radio station. John Thomas ran for three touchdowns and Chicagos Maroons led 18-7 as the quarter began, but a 40-yard fumble return closed the gap

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Roads and freeways in metropolitan Detroit
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The roads and freeways in metropolitan Detroit comprise the main thoroughfares in the region. The freeways consist of a network of interconnecting freeways which include Interstate highways. The Metro Detroit regions extensive toll-free freeway system, together with its status as a port city. There are no roads in Michigan. Detroiters may refer to freeways by the name more often where one has been designated rather than route number. Other freeways without formal names are known by the number such as I‑275, M‑53, while not officially designated may be locally referred to by its name Van Dyke. Detroit area freeways are typically sunken below ground level to local traffic to pass over the freeway. Following a historic fire in 1805, Judge Augustus B. Woodward devised a similar to Pierre Charles LEnfants design for Washington. The Woodward plan proposed a system of hexagonal street blocks, with the Grand Circus at its center, wide avenues, alternatively 200 feet and 120 feet, would emanate from large circular plazas like spokes from the hub of a wheel. As the city grew these would spread in all directions from the banks of the Detroit River, when Woodward presented his proposal, Detroit had fewer than 1,000 residents. Elements of the plan were implemented, most prominent of these are the five main spokes of Woodward, Michigan, Gratiot, Grand River and Jefferson Avenues. The Mile Road System in Metro Detroit and Southeast Michigan facilitates ease of navigation in the region and it was established as a way to delineate east–west roads through the Detroit area and the surrounding rural rim. In Southeast Michigan, many roads would be developed parallel to the line and the meridian. As Detroit grew, several Mile Roads were given new names within the city borders and it is unclear if they ever bore mile numbers formally. The baseline used in the survey of Michigan lands runs along 8 Mile Road, as a result, the direct east–west portion of Michigan Avenue, and M‑153 west of Wyoming Avenue, forms the zero mile baseline for this mile road system. The precise point of origin is located in Campus Martius Park and it is situated in the western point of the diamond surrounding Woodward Fountain, just in front of the Fountain Bistro. I-94 runs east-west through Detroit and serves Ann Arbor to the west, the stretch of the current I‑94 freeway from Ypsilanti to Detroit was one of Americas earlier limited-access highways. Henry Ford built it to link his factories at Willow Run and it also serves the North Access to the Detroit Metro Airport in Romulus

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Gus Sonnenberg
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Gustave Adolph Sonnenberg was an American football player and professional wrestler of German descent and World Heavyweight Champion. As a wrestler, he was National Wrestling Association world heavyweight champion, born in Ewen, Michigan, Sonnenberg grew up on a farm in Green Garden, Michigan. He played football at Marquette High School from 1912 to 1915, playing on Marquettes Upper Peninsula championship team in 1915 when the team went 6–0, outscoring opponents 211 to 7. He went on to Dartmouth College in 1916, dropping out after his first year, but returning for a year in 1919 before transferring to the University of Detroit Mercy. In 1923, at age 25, Sonnenberg turned professional, playing in the NFL for the Buffalo All Americans, in 1924, he helped the Pottsville Maroons win the Anthracite League Championship in 1924. He played two seasons for the Detroit Panthers and then joined the Providence Steam Roller in 1927 and played on the NFL championship team there in 1928. While playing in Providence, Sonnenberg was trained in wrestling and made his mat debut on January 24,1928, at the Arcadia Ballroom in Providence. He became a main event wrestler for Boston-based promoter Paul Bowser, after returning to the Steam Roller for their championship season, Sonnenberg again wrestled Lewis for the world title on January 4,1929 and won the championship. Sonnenberg held the title for two years before losing it to Ed Don George on December 10,1930 in Los Angeles. Sonnenberg and Jim Londos were the two largest draws in pro wrestling in 1929-1930, in October 1929, Sonnenberg was attacked on the streets of Los Angeles by part-time wrestler Pete Ladjimi in an attempt to expose the reigning world champion as weak. Ladjimi was associated with Londos, Sonnenbergs rival, Sonnenberg was again recognized as world champion in the Boston area in 1939, after defeating and unmasking The Shadow to become the American Wrestling Association champion. He only held the title for 13 days before dropping it to Steve Crusher Casey in Boston on March 29,1939 and he continued to wrestle until joining the Navy in 1942. In July 1932, Sonnenberg was involved in a car accident in Lawrence, Massachusetts when the car he was driving hit the car of policeman Richard Morrissey. Sonnenberg was charged with driving and was acquitted in March 1933. Days after his acquittal, Sonnenberg married actress Judith Allen, four months later, in July 1933, Sonnenberg was reported to have suffered a heart attack in Los Angeles. Allen announced her intention to file for divorce while Sonnenberg was recovering in the hospital and she was said to have been seen on a date with Gary Cooper. The divorce was finalized in September and he was later married to Mildred Micelli, who left him. In 1942, during World War II, Sonnenberg joined the Navy and he was serving there when he died of leukemia at the Naval Hospital in Bethesda, Maryland on September 12,1944 at age 46

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National Football League
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The National Football League is a professional American football league consisting of 32 teams, divided equally between the National Football Conference and the American Football Conference. The NFL is one of the four professional sports leagues in North America. The NFLs 17-week regular season runs from the week after Labor Day to the week after Christmas, with each team playing 16 games, the NFL was formed in 1920 as the American Professional Football Association before renaming itself the National Football League for the 1922 season. The NFL agreed to merge with the American Football League in 1966, and the first Super Bowl was held at the end of that season, the merger was completed in 1970. Today, the NFL has the highest average attendance of any sports league in the world and is the most popular sports league in the United States. S. The NFLs executive officer is the commissioner, who has authority in governing the league. The team with the most NFL championships is the Green Bay Packers with thirteen, the current NFL champions are the New England Patriots, who defeated the Atlanta Falcons 34–28 in Super Bowl LI. Another meeting held on September 17,1920 resulted in the renaming of the league to the American Professional Football Association, the league hired Jim Thorpe as its first president, and consisted of 14 teams. Only two of these teams, the Decatur Staleys and the Chicago Cardinals, remain, the first event occurred on September 26,1920 when the Rock Island Independents defeated the non-league St. Paul Ideals 48–0 at Douglas Park. On October 3,1920, the first full week of league play occurred, the following season resulted in the Chicago Staleys controversially winning the title over the Buffalo All-Americans. In 1922, the APFA changed its name to the National Football League, in 1932, the season ended with the Chicago Bears and the Portsmouth Spartans tied for first in the league standings. This method had used since the leagues creation in 1920. The league quickly determined that a game between Chicago and Portsmouth was needed to decide the leagues champion. Playing with altered rules to accommodate the playing field, the Bears won the game 9–0. Fan interest in the de facto championship game led the NFL, beginning in 1933, the 1934 season also marked the first of 12 seasons in which African Americans were absent from the league. The de facto ban was rescinded in 1946, following public pressure, the NFL was always the foremost professional football league in the United States, it nevertheless faced a large number of rival professional leagues through the 1930s and 1940s. Rival leagues included at least three separate American Football Leagues and the All-America Football Conference, on top of regional leagues of varying caliber. Three NFL teams trace their histories to these leagues, including the Los Angeles Rams

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Wilmington College (Ohio)
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Wilmington College is a private career-oriented liberal arts institution established by Quakers in 1870 in Wilmington, Ohio, United States. The college is accredited by the North Central Association, Higher Learning Commission, Wilmington College is known for its Agriculture program, its Athletic Training program, and its Education program. As of fall 2015, there were 990 students attending Wilmingtons main campus, the college also offers a masters degree program in education, with specialties in special education and reading and undergraduate courses at several sites in Cincinnati. The college welcomes transfer students and has a significant number of commuting students, more than half of the students participate in intercollegiate athletics. Wilmington College students enjoy robust on-site and online library resources, the colleges Watson Library is a member of the OPAL consortium and the OhioLINK consortium that provides an integrated catalog, e-resources, and more than 100 research databases. College Hall, Historic building present at Wilmington Colleges founding in 1870, Houses classrooms, faculty offices, offices of Admission, Financial Aid, the Presidents Office, and Academic Affairs. Added to National Register of Historic Places in 1972, bailey Hall, Began as a science building for the college, and later renovated into student housing. Renovated to become home of the Colleges science programs once again temporarily during ongoing renovations to Kettering Hall, S. Arthur Watson Library, The College library, named for former College president S. Arthur Watson. The building is home to the archives, OhioLink, OPAL. Kettering Hall, Science building named for Ohio inventor Charles F. Kettering, features a rooftop observatory dating back to 1882. Ongoing renovation and expansion of Kettering Hall is occurring and completion is expected in time for the Fall 2016 semester and it will be renamed the Center for Sciences and Agriculture. Robinson Communication Center, Houses the Academic Resource Center, computer labs, photography labs and studios, the Communication Arts Department, Reynolds archives are also housed in part at the Earle and Akie Reynolds Archive at the University of California, Santa Cruz. The Peace Resource Center is also known for its ProjectTRUST camp for middle schoolers, the Center has been active in the Wilmington Community in establishing peer mediation in the local schools. Denver Hall, Historic residence hall for fifty students, Marble Hall, Residence hall built by students led by College president Samuel Marble. The building was dedicated with an Ohio Historical Marker in 2013, friends Hall, Residence halls in the center of campus for men and women. Austin Pickett Hall, Two large joining buildings housing freshman residence halls, Wilmington College recognizes thirteen Greek Letter Organizations, three national fraternities, three local fraternities, two national sororities and three local sororities, and two auxiliaries. This group of thirteen Greek organizations constitutes the membership of the Greek Council, additionally, Wilmington College boasts several honor societies, some international in scope. Their colors are Dark Green and Lime Green, the Quakers compete in the NCAA Division III, and have been a member of the Ohio Athletic Conference since 2000

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Detroit
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Detroit is the most populous city in the U. S. state of Michigan, the fourth-largest city in the Midwest and the largest city on the United States–Canada border. It is the seat of Wayne County, the most populous county in the state, the municipality of Detroit had a 2015 estimated population of 677,116, making it the 21st-most populous city in the United States. Roughly one-half of Michigans population lives in Metro Detroit alone, the Detroit–Windsor area, a commercial link straddling the Canada–U. S. Border, has a population of about 5.7 million. Detroit is a port on the Detroit River, a strait that connects the Great Lakes system to the Saint Lawrence Seaway. The Detroit Metropolitan Airport is among the most important hubs in the United States, the City of Detroit anchors the second-largest economic region in the Midwest, behind Chicago, and the thirteenth-largest in the United States. Detroit and its neighboring Canadian city Windsor are connected through a tunnel and various bridges, Detroit was founded on July 24,1701 by the French explorer and adventurer Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac and a party of settlers. During the 19th century, it became an important industrial hub at the center of the Great Lakes region, with expansion of the American automobile industry in the early 20th century, the Detroit area emerged as a significant metropolitan region within the United States. The city became the fourth-largest in the country for a period, in the 1950s and 1960s, suburban expansion continued with construction of a regional freeway system. A great portion of Detroits public transport was abandoned in favour of becoming a city in the post-war period. Due to industrial restructuring and loss of jobs in the auto industry, between 2000 and 2010 the citys population fell by 25 percent, changing its ranking from the nations 10th-largest city to 18th. In 2010, the city had a population of 713,777 and this resulted from suburbanization, corruption, industrial restructuring and the decline of Detroits auto industry. In 2013, the state of Michigan declared an emergency for the city. Detroit has experienced urban decay as its population and jobs have shifted to its suburbs or elsewhere, conservation efforts managed to save many architectural pieces since the 2000s and allowed several large-scale revitalisations. More recently, the population of Downtown Detroit, Midtown Detroit, paleo-Indian people inhabited areas near Detroit as early as 11,000 years ago. In the 17th century, the region was inhabited by Huron, Odawa, Potawatomi, for the next hundred years, virtually no British, colonist, or French action was contemplated without consultation with, or consideration of the Iroquois likely response. When the French and Indian War evicted the Kingdom of France from Canada, the 1798 raids and resultant 1799 decisive Sullivan Expedition reopened the Ohio Country to westward emigration, which began almost immediately, and by 1800 white settlers were pouring westwards. By 1773, the population of Detroit was 1,400, by 1778, its population was up to 2,144 and it was the third-largest city in the Province of Quebec

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Springfield College (Massachusetts)
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Springfield College is a private, coeducational college located in Springfield, Massachusetts. The institution confers undergraduate, post-graduate, and doctoral degrees, known as the birthplace of basketball, the sport was invented at Springfield College in 1891 by graduate student James Naismith. The colleges philosophy of humanics calls for the education of the whole spirit, mind. It is symbolized by a triangle, in 1887, it added a Physical department. In 1890, it separated from the School for Christian Workers and became the YMCA Training School and in 1891, in 1905, the school became a degree-granting institution. In 1912, it took the name International YMCA College and in 1954, Springfield College has had 13 leaders since its inception in 1885. The student-to-faculty member ratio is 13 to 1, the School of Professional and Continuing Studies has eight satellite campuses located throughout the country, as well as representation on the main College campus in Springfield, Massachusetts. The School of Professional and Continuing Studies campuses are located in Boston, charleston, South Carolina, Houston, Texas, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, St. Johnsbury, Vermont, Tampa, Florida, Southern California, Springfield, Massachusetts, and Wilmington, Delaware. The College is accredited by the New England Association of Schools, Johnsbury, Vermont, Tustin, California, Tampa, Florida, and Wilmington, Delaware. Flynn Campus Union, which is complete with a court, activity and lounge space. Springfield Colleges East Campus, which encompasses 82 acres of forest ecosystem, is located one mile from the main campus. This location provides rustic facilities for conferences and meetings, and space for outdoor research and its football team will join the NEWMAC when it begins sponsoring football in 2017. The mens soccer, mens golf, cross country and gymnastics teams are members of the Eastern College Athletic Conference. The mens volleyball competes as an independent. Gulick is in the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame, which is named for Naismith, alumnus William G. Morgan, invented of the game of volleyball. On January 14,2017, the Springfield Wrestling team achieved their 1000th victory, Springfield College joined Oklahoma State, Iowa State, and Oregon State as the only schools to have achieved this milestone. The baseball team plays at Berry-Allen Field, the Springfield softball team appeared in one Womens College World Series in 1977. The Springfield College womens gymnastics won the first intercollegiate national championship in 1969

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Springfield, Massachusetts
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Springfield is a city in western New England, and the seat of Hampden County, Massachusetts, United States. Springfield sits on the bank of the Connecticut River near its confluence with three rivers, the western Westfield River, the eastern Chicopee River, and the eastern Mill River. As of the 2010 Census, the population was 153,060. Metropolitan Springfield, as one of two areas in Massachusetts, had an estimated population of 698,903 as of 2009. The first Springfield in the New World, it is the largest city in Western New England, and the urban, economic and it is the third-largest city in Massachusetts and fourth-largest in New England after Boston, Worcester, and Providence. Hartford, the capital of Connecticut, lies 23.9 miles south of Springfield, bradley International Airport, which sits 12 miles south of Metro Center Springfield, is Hartford-Springfields airport. Springfield was founded in 1636 by English Puritan William Pynchon as Agawam Plantation under the administration of the Connecticut Colony, in 1641 it was renamed after Pynchons hometown of Springfield, Essex, England, following incidents that precipitated the settlement joining the Massachusetts Bay Colony. From 1777 until its closing during the Vietnam War, the Springfield Armory attracted skilled laborers to Springfield, arsenal at Springfield during Shays Rebellion of 1787 led directly to the formation of the U. S. Springfield is located at 42°6′45″N 72°32′51″W, according to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 33.2 square miles, of which 32.1 square miles is land and 1.1 square miles is water. Once nicknamed The City in a Forest, Springfield features over 4, aside from its rivers, Springfields 2nd most prominent topographical feature is the citys 735 acres Forest Park, designed by renowned landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted. Forest Park also borders Western Massachusetts most affluent town, Longmeadow, Springfield shares borders with other well-heeled suburbs such as East Longmeadow, Wilbraham, Ludlow and the de-industrializing city of Chicopee. The small cities of Agawam and West Springfield, Massachusetts lie less than a mile from Springfields Metro Center, across the Connecticut River. The City of Springfield also owns the Springfield Country Club, which is located in the city of West Springfield, Massachusetts. Springfield, like other cities in southern New England, has a continental climate with four distinct seasons. Winters are cold with a average in January of around 26 °F. During winter, noreaster storms can drop significant snowfalls on Springfield, Springfields summers are very warm and sometimes humid. During summer, several times per month, on hot days afternoon thunderstorms will develop when unstable warm air collides with approaching cold fronts, the daily average in July is around 74 °F. Usually several days during the summer exceed 90 °F, constituting a heat wave, Spring and fall temperatures are usually pleasant, with mild days and crisp, cool nights

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Lombard College
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Lombard College was a Universalist college located in Galesburg, Illinois. Lombard College was founded in 1853 by the Universalist Church as the Illinois Liberal Institute, the official name of the school was changed to Lombard College. Lombard was coeducational from its founding, reflecting the Universalist philosophy, the institution was the seat of the Ryder School of Divinity from sometime in the 1880s until 1913. The very first chapter of the national sorority Alpha Xi Delta was also founded there in 1893, Lombard College was a member of the Illinois Intercollegiate Athletic Conference from 1910–1929. The Great Depression proved to be too much for Lombard, the last class was graduated in 1930, while Lombard did not merge, some of its students transferred to nearby Knox College, and its alumni activities take place at Knox. Sigma Nu fraternitys Delta Theta chapter, which formed at Lombard in 1867 as the Delta Theta Society and became a part of Sigma Nu in 1891, until 1973, the Alpha Chapter of Alpha Xi Delta also continued at Knox. The former Lombard College building and campus is used as Lombard Middle School. When the college closed in 1930, the Lombard charter was transferred to Meadville Theological School in Chicago, a Unitarian seminary, bringing with it Lombards privilege of a tax exemption, one of only three in Illinois granting full tax-exempt status in perpetuity for all college-owned property. In 1964 the school adopted the name Meadville Theological School of Lombard College, the combined institution later became Meadville Lombard Theological School. Ken Carpenter - radio-TV announcer Edwin H. Conger – U. S

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Haskell Indian Nations Fighting Indians football
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The Haskell Fighting Indians football team represented the Haskell Institute in the sport of college football. They fielded their first football team in 1896, but in 1931, a new superintendent made the decision to shift the college football team to high school status following the 1931 season. With fewer teams available to play, Haskell dropped football after the 1938 season, football at Haskell would not be resumed again until 1990. Due to funding shortfalls, Haskell suspended football for the 2015 season

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Milwaukee
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Milwaukee is the largest city in the state of Wisconsin and the fifth-largest city in the Midwestern United States. The county seat of Milwaukee County, it is on Lake Michigans western shore, Milwaukees estimated population in 2015 was 600,155. Milwaukee is the cultural and economic center of the Milwaukee–Racine–Waukesha Metropolitan Area with an estimated population of 2,046,692 as of 2015. Ranked by estimated 2014 population, Milwaukee is the 31st largest city in the United States, the first Europeans to pass through the area were French Catholic missionaries and fur traders. In 1818, the French Canadian explorer Solomon Juneau settled in the area, large numbers of German immigrants helped increase the citys population during the 1840s, with Poles and other immigrants arriving in the following decades. Known for its traditions, Milwaukee is currently experiencing its largest construction boom since the 1960s. In addition, many new skyscrapers, condos, lofts and apartments have been built in neighborhoods on and near the lakefront, the word Milwaukee may come from the Potawatomi language minwaking, or Ojibwe language ominowakiing, Gathering place. The first recorded inhabitants of the Milwaukee area are the Menominee, Fox, Mascouten, Sauk, Potawatomi, Ojibwe, many of these people had lived around Green Bay before migrating to the Milwaukee area around the time of European contact. In the second half of the 18th century, the Indians at Milwaukee played a role in all the wars on the American continent. During the French and Indian War, a group of Ojibwas, in the American Revolutionary War, the Indians around Milwaukee were some of the few Indians who remained loyal to the American cause throughout the Revolution. After American independence, the Indians fought the United States in the Northwest Indian War as part of the Council of Three Fires, during the War of 1812, Indians held a council in Milwaukee in June 1812, which resulted in their decision to attack Chicago. This resulted in the Battle of Fort Dearborn on August 15,1812, the War of 1812 did not end well for the Indians, and after the Black Hawk War in 1832, the Indians in Milwaukee signed their final treaty with the United States in Chicago in 1833. This paved the way for American settlement, Europeans had arrived in the Milwaukee area prior to the 1833 Treaty of Chicago. French missionaries and traders first passed through the area in the late 17th and 18th centuries, alexis Laframboise, in 1785, coming from Michilimackinac settled a trading post, therefore, he is the first European descent resident of the Milwaukee region. Early explorers called the Milwaukee River and surrounding lands various names, Melleorki, Milwacky, Mahn-a-waukie, Milwarck, for many years, printed records gave the name as Milwaukie. One story of Milwaukees name says, ne day during the thirties of the last century a newspaper calmly changed the name to Milwaukee, the spelling Milwaukie lives on in Milwaukie, Oregon, named after the Wisconsin city in 1847, before the current spelling was universally accepted. Milwaukee has three founding fathers, Solomon Juneau, Byron Kilbourn, and George H. Walker, Solomon Juneau was the first of the three to come to the area, in 1818. He was not the first European settler but founded a town called Juneaus Side, or Juneautown, in competition with Juneau, Byron Kilbourn established Kilbourntown west of the Milwaukee River and made sure the streets running toward the river did not join with those on the east side

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Washington & Jefferson Presidents football
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The Washington & Jefferson Presidents football team represents Washington & Jefferson College in collegiate level football. The team competes in NCAA Division III and is affiliated with the Presidents Athletic Conference, since its founding in 1890, the team has played their home games at College Field, which was remodeled and renamed Cameron Stadium in 2001. A number of players were named to the College Football All-America Team, the team has been coached by some of the best-known coaches in football history, including John Heisman, Greasy Neale, and Andy Kerr. Founded in 1890, the quickly became well known for drawing large crowds. The faculty and administration expressed concern over the strength of the team, during the 1910s, some sportswriters suggested that the Presidents were one of the top teams in the nation. The greatest achievement in the history was in 1921, when the Presidents appeared in the 1922 Rose Bowl. As college football evolved in the 1930s and 1940s, the Presidents fell far behind their larger competitors, controversy over the poor play of the football team, and a lack of play against larger teams, contributed to the resignation of a college president. In the 1950s the team joined NCAA Division III and the Presidents Athletic Conference, by the 1980s, the team had learned to thrive in that environment, winning a number of conference championships and regularly qualifying for the NCAA Division III playoffs. The football team played its first game on November 1,1890, the Red and Blacks third game of the inaugural season, against College of Wooster, remains disputed to this day, with both schools claiming a victory. By 1894, the communitys interest in the sport had grown considerably, with stronger opponents. A special train from Washington to Pittsburgh was chartered to carry fans, John Brallier, who was the first openly professional football player, played football for Washington & Jefferson College in 1895 before returning to the Greensburg Athletic Association. This incident, and others, caused the faculty to adopt the colleges first eligibility requirements for student athletes, at the same time its activities was becoming more scrutinized, the football team became more successful. But was the September 29,1897, game against the University of Pennsylvania Quakers that marked the birth of football at W&J. The Red and Black lost 18-4 to the national champions. In a game against Denison University on Sept.19,1908, in 1910, the football program was in danger of being dissolved due to crushing debt. The Student Athletic Committee proposed a $1 per term student fee to fund the team, however, team manager and beloved student solicitor Robert M. Murphy, was able to convince the students to accept the fee. However, the Faculty Athletic Committee balked, vetoing the new rules, wells highlighted the growing tension between athletics and academics. As orchestrated by a group of football supporters, the two professors were brought before a faculty committee for not having the requisite support for the athletic programs

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Vermont Catamounts football
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The team competed in the NCAA Division I and were members of the Yankee Conference. The schools first football team was fielded in 1886, the football program was discontinued at the conclusion of the 1974 season. Vermont fields a team at the football level, in a conference that also uses the Yankee Conference name. The first intercollegiate game in the state of Vermont happened on November 6,1886 between Dartmouth and Vermont in Burlington, Vermont reached a level of success after coach Dud Drake in the 1907 and 1908 seasons. The 1907 team fought Dartmouth to a tie, and the 1908 team gave Cornell a scare. This table reflects the results of Yankee Conference matchups when both Vermont and its opponent were members of the conference, Vermont began Yankee Conference play in 1947 with Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Rhode Island. Although they played UMass and UNH in the first season, they didnt play Maine until 1950, Rhode Island until 1955, boston University began league play in 1973

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Ancestry.com
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Ancestry. com LLC is a privately held Internet company based in Lehi, Utah, United States. The largest for-profit genealogy company in the world, it operates a network of genealogical and historical record websites focused on the United States, as of June 2014, the company provided access to approximately 16 billion historical records and had over 2 million paying subscribers. User-generated content tallies to more than 70 million family trees, and subscribers have added more than 200 million photographs, scanned documents, and written stories. Ancestrys brands include Ancestry, AncestryDNA, AncestryHealth, AncestryProGenealogists, Archives. com, Family Tree Maker, Find a Grave, Fold3, Newspapers. com, and Rootsweb. Under its subsidiaries, Ancestry. com operates foreign sites that provide access to services and these include Australia, Canada, China, Japan, Brazil, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and several other countries in Europe and Asia. In 1990, Paul B. Allen and Dan Taggart, two Brigham Young University graduates, founded Infobases and began offering Latter-day Saints publications on floppy disks, in 1988, Allen had worked at Folio Corporation, founded by his brother Curt and his brother-in-law Brad Pelo. Infobases chose to use the Folio infobase technology, which Allen was familiar with, Infobases first products were floppy disks and compact disks sold from the back seat of the founders car. In 1994, Infobases was named among Inc. magazines 500 fastest-growing companies and their first offering on CD was the LDS Collectors Edition, released in April 1995, selling for $299.95, which was offered in an online version in August 1995. Ancestry officially went online with the launched Ancestry. com in 1996, with its roots as a genealogy newsletter started in 1983 by John Sittner, and became an established publishing company in 1984. Ancestry was relaunched as a magazine in January 1994, and went online in 1996, on January 1,1997, Infobases parent company, Western Standard Publishing, purchased Ancestry, Inc. publisher of Ancestry magazine and genealogy books. Western Standard Publishings CEO was Joe Cannon, one of the owners of Geneva Steel. In July 1997, Allen and Taggart purchased Western Standards interest in Ancestry, at the time, Brad Pelo was president and CEO of Infobases, and president of Western Standard. Less than six months earlier, he had been president of Folio Corporation, in March 1997, Folio was sold to Open Market for $45 million. The first public evidence of the change in ownership of Ancestry Magazine came with the July/August 1997 issue and that issues masthead also included the first use of the Ancestry. com web address. More growth for Infobases occurred in July 1997, when Ancestry, Inc. purchased Bookcraft, Infobases had published many of Bookcrafts books as part of its LDS Collectors Library. Pelo also announced that Ancestrys product line would be expanded in both CDs and online. Alan Ashton, an investor in Infobases and founder of WordPerfect, was its chairman of the board. Allen and Taggart began running Ancestry, Inc. independently from Infobases in July 1997, included in the sale were the rights to Infobases LDS Collectors Library on CD

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Sam Greene
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Samuel Saunders Sam Greene was an American sportswriter. He covered sports in Detroit, Michigan for more than 40 years, first with the Detroit Free Press and he was the sports editor for The Detroit News from 1958 to 1963. He was the Detroit correspondent for The Sporting News from 1924 to 1960, Greene was born in Stuart, Virginia in 1895. His father, George Oliver Greene, was a Virginia native and his mother Emma Greene was also a native Virginian. At the time of the 1900 United States Census, Greene was living with his parents, by 1910, the family had moved to Clifton Forge, Virginia, and had grown to include six daughters and three sons. At Clifton Forge, Greens father owned and operated the Daily Review, Greene worked on his fathers newspaper as a boy, handling responsibilities that included delivering papers, sweeping floors, setting type, collecting bills, and proofreading. Greene attended Randoph-Macon College in Ashland, Virginia, while attending college, Greene worked as a typesetter for the Hanover Progress in Ashland. When the United States entered World War I in 1917, Greene enlisted in the United States Navy, after the war, Greene became a reporter for The Roanoke Times. He began covering sports while working in Roanoke, at the time of the 1920 United States Census, Greene was living in Roanoke. He was married to Kittie Greene, a Texas native, by June 1920, Greene had moved to Beaumont, Texas to become a sportswriter for The Beaumont Enterprise. He spent three years in Beaumont and was appointed as the editor of the sports page, while in Beaumont, his baseball writing, covering the Beaumont Exporters of the Texas League, came to the attention of The Sporting News. He became the Beaumont correspondent for The Sporting News from 1920 to 1922, Greene moved to Detroit, Michigan in August 1922 as a sportswriter for the Detroit Free Press. He spent a year-and-a-half with the Free Press before moving to The Detroit News and he remained with the News for nearly 40 years. He also became the principal Detroit correspondent for The Sporting News from 1924 to 1960, Greene became known for his coverage of the Detroit Tigers, the Michigan Wolverines football team, the Detroit Lions, and boxing. He covered the Lions from their first season in the NFL, when the Pro Football Hall of Fame was established in the early 1960s, Greene was one of a member of the board of selectors that chose the initial 17 inductees. He began covering the Michigan Wolverines in 1922, and was honored in 1971 as a charter inductee into the University of Michigans Media Hall of Fame. His fellow sportswriters recalled him as a patriarch who brought dignity and graciousness to the press boxes of major league sports. Jack Dulmage of the Windsor Star described him as follows, He would observe the game with his hat at a rakish tilt and he would move the cigar to laugh heartily at the quips of the day

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Detroit Free Press
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The Detroit Free Press is the largest daily newspaper in Detroit, Michigan, USA. The Sunday edition is entitled the Sunday Free Press and it is sometimes informally referred to as the Freep. It primarily serves Wayne, Oakland, Macomb, Livingston, Washtenaw, the Free Press is also the largest city newspaper owned by Gannett, which also publishes USA Today. The Free Press has received ten Pulitzer Prizes and four Emmy Awards and its motto is On Guard Since 1831. The newspaper was begun by John R. Williams and his uncle, Joseph Campau, the first issues were printed on a Washington press purchased from the discontinued Oakland Chronicle of Pontiac, Michigan. It was hauled from Pontiac in a wagon over rough roads to a building at Bates, the press could produce 250 pages an hour, hand operated by two men. The first issues were 14 by 20 inches in size, with five columns of type, Sheldon McKnight became the first publisher with John Pitts Sheldon as editor. In the 1850s, the paper was developed into a leading Democratic publication under the ownership of Wilbur F. Storey, Storey left for the Chicago Times in 1861, taking a lot of the staff with him. In the 1870s ownership passed to William E. Quinby, who continued its Democratic leanings and established a London, in 1940, the Knight Newspapers purchased the Free Press. During the following 47 years the Free Press competed with The Detroit News, the Free Press was delivered and sold as a morning paper while the News was sold and delivered as an evening newspaper. In 1987, the paper entered into a one hundred-year joint operating agreement with its rival, the combined company is called the Detroit Media Partnership. The two papers began to publish joint Saturday and Sunday editions, though the editorial content of each remained separate. At the time, the Detroit Free Press was the tenth highest circulation paper in the United States, july 13,1995, Newspaper Guild-represented employees of the Free Press and News and the pressmen, printers and Teamsters working for the Detroit Newspapers distribution arm went on strike. By October, about 40% of the staffers had crossed the picket line. The strike was resolved in three years later, and the unions remain active at the paper, representing a majority of the employees under their jurisdiction. In 1998, the Free Press vacated its headquarters in downtown Detroit. August 3,2005, Knight Ridder sold the Free Press to the Gannett company, the News, in turn, was sold to MediaNews Group, Gannett continues to be the managing partner in the papers joint operating agreement. The Free Press resumed publication of its own Sunday edition, May 7,2006, a quirk in the operating agreement, however, allows the News to continue printing its editorial page in the Sunday Free Press